py crops remained that way af- ter winter, however, so nitrogen management should be straight- forward as a result.
Timely tips
• Remain vigilant for septoria
• Address late grass weed problems
• Spray T0 on winter barley
• Apply urea from end of month
* Watch out for bird damage
es to winter cereals should wait until April, but if soils are start- ing to dry out make it early in the month. Urea doses can be applied from the end of this month. Later
in March fi nal nitrogen splits can be applied to oilseed rape. It is these doses that may need adjusting in response to crop can- opy size. Few of the large cano-
Chlormequat Towards the end of the month chlormequat-based growth reg- ulators are likely to be due on win- ter cereals, as mentioned above often with a T0 fungicide. Chlorm- equat is a routine treatment for nearly all winter wheat crops and increasingly so with barley. Used alone in wheat chlorm- equat contributes signifi cantly to a lodging control programme and may be all that’s needed for stiff wheat varieties on light soils, or any late sown crop. These fi rst treatments should be applied around GS30-31. For barley, GS30 is usually the latest growth stage approved, and these treat- ments should be routinely fol- lowed-up later.
Oats will also benefi t from
routine chlormequat treatment – where contracts allow – though
this is usually applied around GS32 and hence likely next month rather than this. March should also provide the
fi nal opportunities for late appli- cations of grass weed herbicides such as Atlantis, Broadway Star etc. Good growing conditions for weeds and reasonable soil mois- ture – with target weeds still small – are ideal and much less likely to occur in April. If spring bean crops have been
sown check carefully as they emerge in case pea and bean wee- vils move in. If damage is seen it may be suffi cient to hold crops back so a pyrethroid spray should be applied.
All spring crops will be prone to corvid damage, so again watch between sowing and emergence. › Richard Overthrow is a region- al agronomist with NIAB TAG, the UK’s largest independent agronomy organisation with sev- eral research centres in East An- glia. For more details, call 01223 342495.
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